DOVER - The Strasburg Tigers one of the few unbeaten Class B teams in the State and the Tuscarawas Broncos, with a record of 23-3, will resume their battle for District and State honors Friday night at Zanesville Municipal Auditorium against the Zanesville St. Thomas Irish and the Frazeysburg Red Raiders winners of last week's Southern Sectional Tournament in Zanesville. At drawings held in Lash High School at Zanesville last night, Strasburg, winner of 25 straight games, drew St. Thomas and Tuscarawas drew Frazeysburg for Friday night's games.
The 2 winners will meet Saturday night in the final game with the winner going to Athens the following week for the Regional Tourament to compete against a winner from the Central District and 2 from the Southeastern District, the winner of the Regional going to the State finals at Springfield. Head Coach Emmet Riley and Supt. G.W. Jeandrevin of Strasburg and Head Coach Jim Rogers and Supt. Harold Everett of Tuscarawas were present last night at the drawings.
The St. Thomas Five, which has a record of 16-4 during the season, defeated West Lafayette 36-35 in an overtime game Saturday night to win its way into the District. Although, the team and Strasburg have met a common foe, the Tigers dropped the Baltic Eagles 60-14 and Baltic broke even with West Lafayette, winning at Baltic 39-37 and losing at West Lafayette 37-29. According to records of the Sasturday game the Irish hit 14 of 46 shots against West Lafayette, indicating that St. Thomas was either hot or that the team has quite a few sharpshooters. Gene O'Brien, a forward, was selected on the All-Tournament 1st team and Mick Brune was named a guard on the 2nd team.
The Frazeysburg Red Raiders, Tusky's opponent, was the Consolation Division winner in the Muskingum County Tournament and defeated Zanesville St. Nicholas 49-45 to win its way into the District. The Frazeysburg cagers showed a spectacular passing attack to win the victory. It has a season record of 17-7. Don Stokes, a guard and Paul Blizzard, a forward, made the All Tournament 1st and 2nd teams, respectively.
In the event that both Strasburg and Tusky are able to win their 1st games, the 2 Tuscarawas County entries will meet Saturday night for a 4th time. Strasburg already having defeated Tuscarawas 3 times by margins of from 2 to 15 points. Referees for the tournament will be William Dailey and Nolan Swackhamer of Newark and the tournament winner will receive a trophy presented by the Zanesville Retail Merchants Association.
Tuesday, March 5, 1946
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
NOTE: TUSCARAWAS COUNTY CLASS B BASKETBALL HIGH SCHOOLS RECEIVED $215.00 EACH FROM THE 1946 TOURNAMENT
Each of the 11 high schools taking part in the 24th Annual Tuscaraws County Class B League's Cage Tournament held at Memorial Hall, today received checks for $215.00 as their shares in the all-time record proceeds of the tournament. The largest previous "split" occurred in 1944 and 1945 when each school received $195.00.
County School Supt. W.E. Laws, who managed the tournament, said gross receipts totaled $3,508.05 as compared to last year's "take" of $3,228.73. The attendance this year was 7,043 and in 1945 it was 6,757. Total expenditures were $3,417.31, including federal tax of $590.22 and State admission tax of $61.44. Referees were paid $180.00 and the tournament paid $125.00 for rental of Memorial Hall and $22 for rental of the time clock, scoreboard and public address system.
The balance of $52.31, left after the schools received their cut and all expenses were paid, was turned over to the Tuscarawas County Athletic Association.
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